Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction. Immigration: An American History 1
5. Chapter One. Founding Immigrants Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century America 13
6. Chapter Two. Opening the Door to Europe’s People 39
7. Chapter Three. From Two Continents, Bound for Two Coasts, 1820–1882 63
8. Chapter Four. Americans React, Regulations Begin, 1820–1882 88
9. Chapter Five. The Masses Arrive as the Door Starts to Close, 1882–1921 111
10. Chapter Six. What Americans Said about the Immigrants, 1882–1921 137
11. Chapter Seven. Closing the Gates National Origins and the Great Depression 161
12. Chapter Eight. Newcomers and World War II 191
13. Chapter Nine. Prosperity, the Braceros, and Cold War Refugees, 1945–1965 216
14. Chapter Ten. The Age of Reform Braceros, Immigrants, and Refugees 247
15. Chapter Eleven. A New Open Door Immigration in the Twentieth Century’s Last Decades 270
16. Chapter Twelve. Immigration Politics and Restrictionism, 1970–2001 299
17. Chapter Thirteen. The Era of Border Security Immigration after 9/11 329
18. Epilogue. Past, Present, Future 361
19. Notes 365
20. Index 389